Amphibian Species of the World 5.6, an Online Reference

Leptobrachium heteropus Boulenger, 1900, Ann. Mag. Nat. Hist., Ser. 7, 6: 186. Holotype: Selangor Mus., (now MNM), by original designation; presumed lost. Type locality: "Larut Hills at an altitude of 3500 feet", Perak, Malaya, Malaysia.

Megalophrys heteropus — Boulenger, 1908, Proc. Zool. Soc. London, 1908: 422.

Megophrys heteropus — Smith, 1930, Bull. Raffles Mus., 3: 133.

Leptobrachium heteropus — Berry and Hendrickson, 1963, Copeia, 1963: 643.

Leptobrachium (Leptolalax) heteropus — Dubois, 1980, Bull. Mens. Soc. Linn. Lyon, 49: 476.

Leptolalax heteropus — Dubois, 1983, Alytes, 2: 148.

Leptolalax (Leptolalax) heteropus — Delorme, Dubois, Grosjean, and Ohler, 2006, Alytes, 24: 15.

English Names

Malaysian Asian Toad (Frank and Ramus, 1995, Compl. Guide Scient. Common Names Amph. Rept. World: 86).

Variable Litter Frog (Chan-ard, 2003, Photograph. Guide Amph. Thailand: 80).

Distribution

Malay Peninsula, Malaysia, and adjacent southernmost peninsular Thailand.

Comment

See accounts by Bourret, 1942, Batr. Indochine: 207-208 (as Megophrys heteropus), and Berry, 1975, Amph. Fauna Peninsular Malaysia: 34. See brief account and photo by Manthey and Grossmann, 1997, Amph. Rept. Südostasiens: 76-77. Chan-ard, 2003, Photograph. Guide Amph. Thailand: 80-81, provided a very brief account, map for Thailand, and photograph.

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